Dozens Killed by Regime Barrel Bombs in Aleppo, half of them Children

“Today, instead of snow it was exploding barrels that fell on people’s heads.”

The Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar reports that the Syrian air force bombed Aleppo on Sunday with makeshift barrel bombs, killed at least 36 persons, including 15 children. They targeted neighborhoods controlled by rebels in the country’s largest city, in the north of the country. The Aleppo Information Center made up of activist citizen journalists said that helicopter gunships targeted a number of rebel-held districts in the country’s financial center. They said they used barrel bombs on these civilian neighborhoods, wreaking a great havoc on buildings and set cars aflame. Rebel forces deployed earth moving equipment to clear rubble and look for survivors and the dead. An eye witness remarked, “Today, instead of snow it was exploding barrels that fell on people’s heads.”

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In all fairness I’d take the numbers from the SOHR with a grain of salt, particularly vis a via military casualties. That more combatants would be killed than civilians is unusual, and that twice as many people from the army with all the firepower would die is also fairly suspicious.